The Hyperreal Kelly Rankin

@badlogicgames Slopgrammer

@badlogicgames Sloputer Smience

putting the term slopgineering into public domain.

@LonelyWolfsh @GergelyOrosz Learn to read.

@GergelyOrosz Idi*t. You want use GitHub for free but are not willing to give something back. You really must be an idi*t

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/copil…

@FoundersCFO @unusual_whales It isn't incorrect. Nothing has yet materialized.

@unusual_whales This is incorrect. You just have to weigh it against mass layoffs. What you're seeing is the restructuring before larger scale growth.

"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs

the internal software quality of a code base correlates to the level of emotional intelligence shared among stakeholders. EQ leads to ISQ

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@TAbrodi Congrats

ive a new job, will announce it soon. happy. 2026 finna be a movie.

@ReichlinMelnick @MaxEpstein5 The special tech:

Complete confirmation of the ICE arrest quotas. Any kind of quota for law enforcement is dangerous to civil liberties.

@jamonholmgren This nicely reflects where I've arrived as well. I always leave it running to do something after my day has ended and during the day I make sure I have a firm grasp on how and what I am building. Different modes at different times.

1. There absolutely is an international slop crisis 2. My tweet was an attempt to get people to improve their workflows and thus quality 3. Passive-aggressiveness is not a great trait. Try being sincere and constructive. You’ll make more friends and influence people positively.

@chrispian @jamonholmgren And some people will maintain a balanced view and use all tools effectively instead of drunkenly driving off a cliff while insulting people who are hesitant to do the same

@jamonholmgren Some people will fight against this forever, refusing to learn how to use it well and creatively. And when people produce good quality with it, they'll call it a trick. Those people will be left behind like coal miners - not because they couldn't adapt but because they refused.

@voidcompiler And they'll me promoted for it

The main person driving this strategy has a history of recklessness and sowing chaos across the engineering organisation. I think I've seen enough tbh, but will stick around for a while, mostly due to a morbid curiosity in just how damaging and chaotic this particular episode will be.

The big AI push took place this week. About 10% of the engineers fired. All IDE (e.g. Visual Studio, Rider), copilot and windsurf licenses cancelled. Everyone from now on will work using Claude Code, and its expected that velocity will increase substantially. Bold move? Some might say utterly reckless. Grab your popcorn, sit back and relax and watch the chaos unfold 🍿🍿🍿

@vyrotek @scottdotnetdev Multiple things in windows also have their own cert store

@scottdotnetdev It's easy on windows and macos because they have central certificate stores. One command. But Linux has a dozen places to put them and different apps trust different places.

I know I'm a noob. But adding trusted local dev ssl certs on Linux is way more work than it should be. No one agrees on anything.

@tomasz_ducin I'll fight the urge to recurse this one step further

hot take: it's a skill issue to suggest others have skill issues

@mikecallaghan Depends on the manager and amount of trust we have built up, the scope of the potential damage etc

When your manager asks you to do something you think is wrong, what do you do? Discuss in comments.

@VicVijayakumar "High performers" aka -10x engineers who create an insane amount of work for everyone else

There used to always be a place at companies for high performers with zero people skills who were unbearable to work with but pushed code faster than anyone else. It wasn’t always perfectly tested, they never wrote tests or went to meetings or took on-call shifts or did any project management, but gosh darn it they cranked out code to keep us moving; you could always bolt on the tests and deal with the bugs afterwards.

@fchollet We're basically headed towards a minority report style dystopia where people are being detained based on hallucinations

I gained a lot of respect for Dario for being principled on the issues of mass surveillance and autonomous killbots. Principled leaders are rare these days

@BraydenWilmoth @pushonfridays Relying on the test suite to be perfect. I'd be shocked if that's true.

@pushonfridays Not sure if you read the blog post or not, but so long as the test suite for NextJS continues to exist AI can continuously keep this up-to-date with all the latest changes. Support is built in by default.

NextJS cost $1,100 for a developer and AI to rebuild and it's 4.4x faster & 57% smaller.

@JenGriffinFNC @TheOmniLiberal you might want to increase that p(doom)

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.” According to a source familiar: The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business. Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.) At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted. According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.

Looking to buy an AMD pc in Austin, who’s got me?

@aaronjmate George Carlin rolling over in his grave

YouTube has removed the original video for Bruce Cockburn's 1984 anti-war classic "If I Had A Rocket Launcher." YT claims it violated "policy on violent or graphic content." Cockburn wrote the song after visiting a Guatemalan refugee camp.